After impulsively spilling her feelings to Yamada, Tsubaki asks him to meet once again. Although she is aware that Yamada has feelings for someone else, she tries to tell him all the feelings she had been carrying for him through her student life. Upon hearing her feelings, Yamada says…
All the while, Akane was eating Yakiniku in an offline meetup with the guild members. Although she knew Yamada was going to join them afterwards, she ends up drinking much more than she had planned in order to ease her nervousness. By the time Yamada arrived, she was completely wasted, but without a complaint, Yamada stays by her side. Then, after Akane has sobered up, what Yamada does is–.